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Dr. Friederike Gabel & Dr. Benjamin Kupilas (team leader)
Prof. Dr. Tillmann Buttschardt
Dr. Friederike Gabel
Dr. Benjamin Kupilas
graduate and undergraduate students
A feature on the project "Microplastics in dams and reservoirs: sedimentation, distribution, effects (MikroPlaTaS)" has been published in the series Sustainability at the WWU (in German Language). A new video informs about the project on which Dr. Friederike Gabel and Diana Michler-Kozma are the involved researchers at ILÖK. Numerous theses have also been written in this field of reserach.
We study the possibility to actively recolonize sensitive macroinvertebrate taxa into morphologically restored stream sections under multiple stress using a stream-side mesocosm facility at the Münstersche Aa, Germany. Our facility comprises 32 circular stream mesocosms based on the ExStream set up (Piggott et al. 2015, Global Change Biology, 21(1):206–222. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12661) which enables a high degree of realism as they are run with stream water, which permits natural immigration and emigration of organisms, at the same time offering an unparalleled combination of strict control of experimental variables and excellent statistical power.
Summer 2021
S: Landschaftsnutzung und -management (M7, LÖK)
E: Exkursion Lofoten (B10 / M11, LÖK)
Winter 2021/22
P: Forschungsprojekt (M13, LÖK)
S: Ökologische Verbesserung von Gewässern (M15 WaWi)
S: Integrated Water Resources MAnagement (M2 WaWi)
Limnolab holds equipment to conduct fieldwork in aquatic ecosystems, with the focus on the study of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Moreover, we are closely collaborating with the ILÖK lab, which enables us to analyse water chemistry and stables isotopes (N, C) to investigate food webs. The inventory of our lab includes waders, electrofishing equipment, 200 temperature loggers etc. Furthermore, we are continuously extending